Thread: Can you de-DRM Kindle Unlimited books to read on a Kobo?
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Old 12-06-2021, 08:24 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by Byrdie View Post
Kobo has a similar program called KoboPlus, that way you wouldn't have to convert anything. But I'm not sure if they have free trials as often as Amazon, also I'm not sure how authors get paid when you rent the Plus books. They don't seem to use the page count method because you can read offline on your reader or in the Kobo app. And unlike KindleUnlimited, you aren't restricted to just 20 books downloaded per month.
According to https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...-while-offline, you can read 15 books off-line and then have to sync. I would assume during the sync it will upload whatever is needed to do the payment calculation.

There is some, to me, weird language on that page as they keep referring to "the trial period". It might mean that the length of the trial period is used later as the maximum time you can be off-line and read those 15 books. There is a "whichever comes first", so that might be it. But, https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...mmon-questions gives the different trial periods, and for some reason those in Quebec don't get a trial period, so I don't know what happens there.
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Edited to add: Also not sure which countries other than Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and (I think) the US it's available in. But a quick search on the Kobo site ought to help you find it.

You can add Australia. The second link lists the countries Kobo Plus is available. The US is not one of them.
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